Permissions to access USB camera under debian

[shimi]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Micha Feigin <michf at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to connect a camera (Mesa Imaging Swissranger specifically) to
> a Debian unstable box. I'm getting an error that the user does not have
> permissions to open the USB device (needs read/write access). Couldn't find
> any relevant group to add my user to to solve the problem. Any idea as to
> how to grant access?
>
> I've manged to get some information when running as sudo although it still
> was a bit problematic, and I'd rather explore the issue as a regular user
> and not root.
>
>
> Do you have a 'camera' group? Alternatively you could look for *v4l* and
*video* under the /dev tree...

HTH,

-- Shimi
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